Sadly this mans body was recovered from the lake. I think it is a disgrace that the people with him just left him to drown.

@Marcos *********

yes that would explain a lot. Khao Sok is a very big and remote place. It is not somewhere that people should try to learn how to kayak. I hope he is a good swimmer. I still do not understand why his friend or friends left him to sink or swim!!!

@Marcos *********

it is not clear about how big his group was or if he was on a tour. I have done a lot of kayaking. Normal procedure if someone capsizes is you use you friends kayaks to right it again and empty most of the water out. If you cant do that then you stay with your kayak or grab onto a friends one.

What you never do is just abandon your friend and hope that they can swim to shore! I wonder also if he was wearing a lifejacket.

@Marcos *********

thanks for that

@Marcos *********

yes maybe. Or perhaps just a very poorly thought out post that is not going to help find this man at all. Seems to me he is either already drowned in the lake or he has swum to the shore and is OK.

Why the rest of his group abandoned him and did not save him is the big question here. It makes no sense to me at all.

Someone saw his kayak tip over but did not try to help him? No tour guide there? Bangkok or Khao Sok they are many hundreds of kilometres apart. This story doesnt quite seem to add up.

Khao sok is nowhere near bangkok at all its way down in the south.

@Phil *****

I cant see that how long it is since the village ceremony would have any impact on your decision to be formally married. It should be irrelevant.

@Phil *****

a friend who married a thai recently said it was very complicated and that the amount of paperwork and and travelling to government offices in different provinces was incredible.

Village ceremony doesnt make you legally married. Its ritual only.